December 17, 2006

Military History:

Why English Officers Wore Red Coats

A long time ago, Britain and France were at war.

During one battle, the French captured an English
colonel. They took him to their headquarters,
and the French general began to question him.

Finally, as an afterthought, the French general
asked,
"Why do you English officers all wear red coats?

Don't you know the red material makes you easier
targets for us to shoot at?"

In his bland English way, the officer informed the
general that the reason English officers wear red
coats is so that if they are shot, the blood won't
show, and the men they are leading won't panic.

And that is why, from that day to this, all French
Army officers wear brown pants.

H/T Catfish

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An Irish Outlook

An Irishman named O'Malley went to his doctor after a long illness. The doctor sighed and looked O'Malley in the eye and said, "I've some bad news for you. You have cancer, and it can't be cured. You'd best put your affairs in order."

O'Malley was shocked but being a solid character, he managed to compose himself and walk from the doctor's office into the waiting room, where his son was waiting.

"Well son, we Irish celebrate when things are good, and we celebrate when things don't go well. In this case, things aren't so well. I have cancer. Let's head to the pub and have a few pints."

After 3 or 4 pints the two were feeling a little less somber..
There were some laughs and some more beers. They were eventually
approached by some of O'Malley's friends, who were curious as to
what the two were celebrating.

O'Malley told them they were drinking to his impending end. He
told his friends, "I have been diagnosed with AIDS."

The friends gave O'Malley their condolences, and they had a
couple more beers. After the friends left, O'Malley's son leaned
over and whispered his confusion.

"Dad, I thought you told me that you were dying of cancer, and
you just told your friends that you were dying of AIDS!"
O'Malley said, "I don't want any of them sleeping with your
Mother after I am gone."


YOU GOTTA LOVE THE IRISH!!

H/T to Jack

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December 15, 2006

Made Me Cry...

Anna at A Rose by Any Other Name has a great Christmas wish poem posted. Do yourself a favor and go read it.

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December 13, 2006

Classic Humor

I've always thought Foster Brooks was a really funny comic. I just HAD to repost this link I found at GuyK's site. As one of Guy's commenters noted; Mr. Brooks was fortunate to have worked in a period where the ACLU and P.C. groups such as M.A.D.D. weren't so prevalent and eager to sue anyone that found humor in their pet peeve of an issue.


And here's another example:


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December 07, 2006

Lets all say Thanks....

Catfish sent me a heads-up on something that Xerox is doing for our troops, lets ALL take a moment and say "thank You" to someone that is walking the walk instead of just talking the talk.

"LETS SAY THANKS"

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December 05, 2006

Just for Grins

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And I'm DAMNED good at my job!!

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December 04, 2006

R.I.P. U.S.A.

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It's the final beginning of the end; John Bolton has tendered his resignation as the U.S. Ambassador to the U(seless) N(ations).

If we had had any chance to stop the headlong rush to internationalization; it's lost now. John Bolton was the type of man that always looked out for our national interest despite the pressures to "go along to get along". This is just the first consequence of electing a majority of far Leftists into the majority of both houses, and it won't be the last. I do fear however, that it may be one of the most consequential in regards to our national well being.

The U.N. is an organization that has proved time and again to be inimical to the interests of most of the civilized Nations of the world in general, and against the U.S.A. in particular. It has become the covert hammer used by tyrants and thugs to intimidate the Nations of the world into becoming their willing victims, lest they be visited with overt violence. We need men and women not afraid to stand up against this type of bullying, and John Bolton was just such a man.

Appeasement has never worked and WILL never work. We are in 1938 all over again, and now, just as then, all too few see the writing written large on the wall; they choose to ignore the clear warnings that the enemies of civilization are sounding in a claxon call of Jihadism and bloodshed throughout the world.

If we allow the leftist contingent to dictate the type of Ambassador we replace John Bolton with, we may just as well climb into the box and shut the lid on the greatest Republic the world has ever seen.

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Delftsman3

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December 01, 2006

Islam - "R o P"

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Ah, yes, Islam is such a PEACEFUL religion, after all, its adherants have something like THIS occur in their midst and not ONE of them will protest it happening, after all, that would be violent, wouldn't it?

Such evil crimes as teaching female children to read and write SHOULD be punished in as horrible a way as possible, otherwise, they just might get the idea that they are the equal of men, after all.

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Just For Grins

It's hard to find jokes without foul words in them these days, but Catfish sent me this one:

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Two tall trees, a birch and a beech, are growing in the woods. A small tree
begins to grow between them, and the beech says to the birch, "Is that a son
of a beech or a son of a birch?"

The birch says he cannot tell.

Just then a woodpecker, lands on the sapling.

The birch says, "woodpecker, you are a tree expert. Can you tell

if that is a son of a beech or a son of a birch?"

The woodpecker takes a taste of the small tree. He replies, "It is

neither son of a beech nor son of a birch. "It is however, the best

piece of ash I have ever put my pecker in"

Delftsman3

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November 14, 2006

"We want Nuclear Electricity"

So say the Mullahs of Iran. Yeah....RIIIIIIIIIIIGHT....

Then tell me why traces of super-enriched Uranium, and even worse, Plutonium, have been found in the waste tailings that the IAEA have inspected in Teheran? Mind you, the ONLY practical use for Plutonium is in Atomic warheads; it's just too dangerous for use in civilian power generating plants.....
But of course, the international community just turns a blind eye; saying that the amounts are too small to be of concern at present, indeed, some of the facilities for enrichment being constructed are being done so with UN funding aid.

I don't know about you, but the thought of a regime that has publicly stated that "soon the evil of the Zionist State will be totally eradicated" having access to nuclear materials of any sort is frightening, to say the least. To discover that they are processing nuclear materiel to the point of producing plutonium is totally unacceptable.

I had a discussion several weeks ago where my Ex-wife (Moonbattus Extremous) stated; "I don't know how you can continue to function normally, when you are operating in such a state of unreasonable fear" in regard to world affairs in the area of the Middle East. I responded that it WASN'T fear, but a state of heightened vigilence and awareness.

Tell me, is it unreasonable to be wary of a group that has continually and LOUDLY stated that their ultimate goal is the eradication of the United States; and in numerous incidents over the last 20 years has continually PHYSICALLY demonstrated not only that they are serious in accomplishing that goal, but has the physical will, technology, and expertise to do so?
And now allies of that group are becoming at least close to being able to provide nuclear weapons to the cause? Isn't the sane reaction to such an imminent threat at least a MODICUM of extra vigilence/preparedness?

My Ex, and by their recent post-election statements, apparently the majority of the Democratic Party, would say it was unreasonable....at least up to the moment that some sort of horrific attack did occur, and even then, would focus their efforts on trying to find whom to blame rather than respond in kind to the perpetrators of the action.

America, I cry for thee...we have become too comfortable in our own sense of invunerablity, even though that invunerablity has been shown to be a lie.
We have become too complacent and too out of touch with the grim reality that, "Yes Virginia, there ARE people out there that truly wish nothing more than an opportunity to slaughter us wholesale". We are unwilling to tear ourselves away from "Star Search" long enough to look around and really see what is happening around us. And those of us that ARE trying to sound the alarm are regarded as, at best, paranoid, and at worst, "War-Mongering Right Wing Idiologues"/Republicans/Religious Zealots...much as Churchhill was regarded when Neville Chamberlain stepped off the plane holding up a treaty with Chancellor Hitler and declaring "peace in our time"....what a difference six months made then; may it not be so this time as well.
The stakes are even higher this time around,and the outcome even more uncertain.

Delftsman3

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A Nightmare

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Read THIS...NOW.

I fear that the scenario postulated in this article is all too possible. And we only have ourselves to blame if it DOES occur. Our enemies have repeatedly warned us of their intentions, and have demonstrated their ability and resolve to carry out those intentions, but all we have demonstrated is the lack of resolve that only the fat and lazy can truly rise to, coupled with a lack of logical, real world common sense, on the part of a large section of the Democratic party and it's sycophants.

May G-d have mercy on us, as our enemies surely won't.

Delftsman3

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November 03, 2006

The Halloween Party

A bald man with a wooden leg gets invited to a Halloween party.

He doesn't know what costume to wear to hide his head and his leg so
he writes to a costume company to explain his problem.

A few days later he received a parcel with the following note:

Dear Sir,

Please find enclosed a pirate's outfit. The spotted
handkerchief will cover your bald head and, with your wooden leg, you will be just
right as a pirate.

Very truly yours,

Acme Costume Co.


The man thinks this is terrible because they have emphasized his
wooden leg and so he writes a letter of complaint.

A week goes by and he receives another parcel and a note, which says:

Dear Sir,

Please find enclosed a monk's habit. The long robe will cover your wooden
leg and, with your bald head, you will really look the part.

Very truly yours,

Acme Costume Co.


Now the man is really upset since they have gone from emphasizing his wooden leg to emphasizing his bald head so again he writes the company another nasty letter of complaint. The next day he gets a small parcel and a note, which reads:

Dear Sir,

Please find enclosed a bottle of molasses and a bag of crushed nuts.

Pour the molasses over your bald head, pat on crushed nuts, stick your wooden leg up your butt and go as a caramel apple.

Very truly yours,

Acme Costume Co.

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October 26, 2006

The Drug Problem in America

I got this in an e-mail from a friend;and it certainly brought back quite a few memories......I guess I had a drug problem, too! When I was young, I was the drugee and later I was the druger!


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The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county. He asked me a rhetorical question, ''Why didn't we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?''

I replied, I did have a drug problem when I was young:

I was drug to church on Sunday morning.

I was drug to church for weddings and funerals.

I was drug to family reunions and community socials, no matter the weather.

I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults.

I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher, or if I didn't put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me.

I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profane four-letter word.

I was drug out to pull weeds in mom's garden and flowerbeds and cockleburs out of dad's fields.

I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline, or chop some firewood; and, if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the woodshed.

Those drugs are still in my veins; and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, and think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin; and, if today's children had this kind of drug problem, America would be a better place.

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October 16, 2006

SeeBS, they DON'T get it..

Stoopid Cartoon

But, we already knew that now, didn't we?

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October 14, 2006

So freakin' tired

of blatant ignorance.

I know it's something that has been around forever and will continue to be around. Sometimes, though, it just gets to me. Especially when things hit close to home. A few things have happened around here that I am not at liberty to discuss and have made me quite pissed off, so please forgive my ramblings in advance.

For sheer entertainment purposes, I sometimes pop into the chat rooms that are affiliated with my "domestic engineering" websites. Wow. Just wow. Now, I was raised to respect that people are different and that I will always find people that have a difference in opinion from myself. However, I was NOT raised to respect stupidity. Some of the thread titles alone are just that. Stupidity.

#1- "Do you think the reduction of gas prices is manipulation from the administration to remain in seat?"

Hmmm... please, please, please research what goes into gas prices, why it is what it is and why it was recently reduced BEFORE making a complete jackass out of yourself for G-d only knows how many other people. Also please refer to Mirriam-Websters online dictionary for the term, "PROFIT MARGIN". Next time you are shopping in stores like Michael's, think about that as you grab one of those fake trees whose markup is 350%.

#2- Blame Bush!

This mantra is old. Can we come up with something new to discuss? How 'bout this: is the fact that your IQ is lower than my garbage disposal based on genetics (are you predisposed to be a knuckle-dragging fool?) or was it more of an enviornmental thing (you were surrounded by idiots growing up?), or better yet, is it Bush's fault? That's it, asshats! Nature vs. Nurture vs. Bush, much more captivating.

#3- Bush lied, kids died. The war was unjustified. 9/11 was a conspiracy, and other statements that prove lack of frontal cortex activity

Conspiracy theorists: refer to this.
See libruls, we DO like science!

As far as the war being unjustified, I am very proud of our troops and think that their deployment was necessary. I know that it sucks, I have my brother on deck for deployment in January. I don't know about these single neuron baring fools, but I'm not fond of fighting these turban-twisted fucks on OUR streets. If Gore had gotten into office instead of Bush (remember 7 days does not equate to 9, please look up "algorithm" and give a hat tip to Elian Gonzalez while you're at it), if that administration took the wheel and had us pull out like a 17-year-old on prom night, we'd be screwed.

Religion of Peace, my ass. For more displays of "peace", refer to THIS. I know that the death toll is rising in the middle east, as happens in war, but quit bleating for a sec and look at those numbers. 400,000 killed in Darfur as an act of genocide. I don't see that number written on the back of the local moonbat's minivan parked at my college.

I digress, I know I'm preaching to the choir.

*sigh*

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Ann gets it..

.. she always does.

In 1994, the Clinton administration got a call from Jimmy Carter — probably collect — who was with the then-leader of North Korea, saying: "Hey, Kim Il Sung is a total stud, and I've worked out a terrific deal. I'll give you the details later."

Clinton promptly signed the deal, so he could forget about North Korea and get back to cheating on Hillary. Mission accomplished.

Just a little summpin' to think about, all you finger-pointing nitwits. This chat about doing an "investigation into the administration" for failures in NKo, what exactly does that do to help resolve these issues? Nothing. People, you have to stop and think of these things before hitting the polls in November. Do you want representatives whose only feeble thought is to investigate, investigate, investigate, and NOT into the actual issue on hand or do you want representatives that are going to do something about it?

If you need any more evidence that it was a rotten deal, The New York Times hailed it as "a resounding triumph."

Bwuaaaaahaaahaa! Cheap shot, most excellent.

So when it comes to North Korea, I believe the Democrats might want to maintain a discreet silence, lest anyone ask, "Hey, did you guys do anything with North Korea?"

Thank you, Ann! Like I said, she gets it.

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October 12, 2006

Random Ramblings

I don't know how long this connection will hold up, but I really wanted to try and get SOMETHING up here....it looks so darned bleak and barren w/o any posts up, and my co-authors are all engaged in some time consuming activities that can't be put off, so they couldn't post anything lately.

I'm still staying at my ex's place, it's just more conducive to faster healing than home is at the moment, and speaking of healing, I'm rather pleased with my progress so far. I am up to walking almost half a mile day now (albeit in stages, not continious), and I am tapering off of the oxycodein tabs...and best (and hardest) of all, it's been 55 days nicotine free. I dread the confrontation that will occur when I go home and institute a "no smoking in the house or car" policy. I find it wrong to impose restrictions on anothers right to engage in a legal activity and it makes me feel like a real hypocrit to impose such sanctions, but having said that, I KNOW two things; 1), I will be unable to continue my abstinence if I am exposed to such a great extant of smoke as presently exists, and 2), if I resume smoking, I will be throwing away this one last chance that all of the dedicated medical professionals have given me. As it is, they estimate that I've been given another 5 good years, and I don't want to waste any of them, or shorten that estimate by my own stupidity. I just hope that I can get the others in the household to make what I know is a difficult (and somewhat selfish on my part) sacrifice towards that end. Only time will tell. I won't say I'll never smoke again; I am a nicotine addict. All I can say is "I won't smoke today". I can only pray that it will get easier with time.

On the family front, we have received some difficult news this week; it seems that my ex wife will require surgury to repair tears of the rotater cuffs of both shoulders, and she's scheduled to have the right shoulder surgury done Nov. 28.; and we learned just yesterday that my ex-mother in law will need cardiac surgury to repair a leaking aortic valve....don't know when she will go in to have it done, but it will have to be soon, by all accounts. At her age (no, I WON'T tell it G'ma ) such surgury is pretty problematic, I hope know that I can count on all of you to give us your continued support; you can not conceive of how much it has meant to me and all of my family.

On a much brighter note, LC Beth*A is making the move from San Diego to Indianapolis at the beginning of November, so we can enjoy the pleasure of her company physically, as well as through E-Mail and Tx. (I'm sorry if I'm letting the cat out of the bag, Beth, but I just can't keep a secret like this..) Assuming that the Medicos give me clearence to resume driving and flying( and most likely even if they don't!) at my first post op check-up, I'm going to fly to San Diego and assist her in driving her worldly goods back to her new home here in Indiana. Hopefully, she'll find the time to start putting some of her patented "good horse-sense posts" up here on a semi-regular basis too.

Time to go for my theraputic walk/exercises, talk to you all soon.

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Joke of the Day

A woman, standing nude, looks in the bedroom mirror and says to her
husband, "I feel horrible, I look fat and ugly. Pay me a compliment."

The husband replies, "Your eyesight's damn near perfect."


He never heard the shot

Thanks Catfish!

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September 29, 2006

ARRGGH!

SCREW IT I've tried 10 times to put up a post, but the computor elves are really enjoying messing with me. I'm as well as can be expected and I'm deeply grateful for all the support you've all shown me, Talk to ya'll soon.

DELFTS

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September 08, 2006

I can't believe this...

No, I am not a doctor. Nor am I a nurse. I've never taken even so much as a CPR or first aid course outside the cursory one they teach in high school driver's ed so you can save your passengers after you've screwed up behind the wheel.

Even so, I know that after major surgery you do not send someone home who has not passed a decent bowel movement, who blew out his own catheter in the middle of the night, who cannot even eat because of the nausea and what vomiting does to his split sternum, who sill has bedsores, and who be left alone for hours at a time because he cannot get out of a chair unassisted. It is dangerous, it is irresponsible, and it is bad medicine.

Yet today when I went to take Delfts a bowl of fruit from the cafeteria breakfast bar he told me he thought that they were considering exactly that. Even though he badly wants to be out of this hospital, even he thinks that Monday is entirely soon enough.

I do not know who is pushing this release, but I strongly suspect the insurance company is putting the pressure on the hospital and the surgeon. Yes, it is true that under perfect conditions a patient having the same surgery could reasonably expect to have been home long before today. This, however, was far from a perfect case. Five days of atrial fibrillation did number on him, and the fact that he was in very poor condition prior to the surgery only contributed to the situation we have now. A former health care worker with whom I am friends was astounded that they sent him home from the Congestive Heart Failure unit over the weekend prior to his surgery based on his overall condition and the problems he was having.

And now they want to send him home again.

This is not a good thing. It is, in fact, a very bad idea. I desperately hope that this is more the product of a combination of pain meds affecting Delft's mind, and not a real option that they are considering for him.

In the meantime, he truly enjoys the calls. He has missed you all so very much. Thank you for calling him. I fixed the phone number in the previous post, so it is correct now.

Update: Well, I am much relieved after talking to Delft's nurse. Relieved, but not as relieved as I'd like to be.

It seems that after the successful cardioversion on Tuesday, he was able to keep a sinus rhythm only until Wednesday night. He's been in and out of A-fib and back on the meds for it since then. He has been light-headed and dizzy, so much so that they had to cut his 11am walk back from 150 feet to 75 feet.

Based on all of his indicators, there is no possibility of his being released either today or tomorrow for love or money. He got his conversation with his nurse all mixed up in his drug-addled mind and completely misunderheard what was being explained to him. It is a Very Good Thing™ that he was wrong. He has no business being home alone. Hell, he has no business being at home even with other people as long as his cardiac rhythm isn't regulated.

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